now chemists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., have come up with a way to efficiently and cleanly turn such naturally occurring sugars into plastics, making Tupperware from trees a real possibility.
Chemist Conrad Zhang and colleagues at PNNL tested a variety of metal catalysts
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